Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (10 October 1860-30 December 1935) was Viceroy of British India from 2 April 1921 to 3 April 1926 (succeeding Lord Chelmsford and preceding the Earl of Lytton), as well as British Foreign Secretary from 25 August to 5 November 1931, succeeding Arthur Henderson and preceding John Simon. He was a Liberal Party member.

Biography
Rufus Isaacs was born in London, England in 1860 to a Jewish family, and he was educated in London and in Brussels. He became a lawyer after working on the Stock Exchange, and entered Parliament for the Liberal Party to represent Reading in 1904. He became a peer in 1913 as Lord Chief Justice, and from 1918 to 1919 served as British ambassador to the United States. As Viceroy of British India from 1921 to 1926, he negotiated face to face with Mahatma Gandhi, an dimplemented the 1919 Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms. He was briefly Foreign Secretary in the National Government of 1931, and was later involved in the Round Table Conferences on India. He died in 1935.